The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre began as Africa's first Holocaust centre founded in 1999. It has sister Centres in Johannesburg and Durban, and together they form part of the association, the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation.
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How do you say you "loved" this centre? It provokes, educates, challenges - but love no. The content is too disturbing for a word like “love”; instead, I felt humbled by the willingness of the survivors to share their stories with another generation.
This is not for children – it’s too horrific for a casual viewer and requires time to decompress once you have been here.
The exhibits all convey not only the tragic history, but has on full display examples of the casual cruelty that people inflicted on each other with brutal efficiency.
If this doesn’t not move you, you lack some humanity because it dawns on one that despite all of this, there were indeed survivors who made it out to tell their stories.
Entrance is free though they do require a great deal of personal information and there was a wide variety of people, culture and language when I visited.
There was also a guide, but it was not clear whether she was attached to the centre or an...
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A DEFINITELY MUST VISIT BY LOCALS AND TOURIST ALIKE!!!
I wanted to visit this museum for a very long time - today I did just that. I was fascinated how they have connected the Holocaust with our (South African) Apartheid era... Even the fact that so many people died during the SA Apartheid era is hard to believe. It is even more UNBELIEVABLE that one man could initiate the killing so many Jews and (as a Democrat) justified his action by making the entire German race believe that what he was doing right... I was privileged to watch a video called: HEIL HITLER: Confessions of a Hitler Youth. This story tells how German youths as young as 12 where to become "The Perfect Race". As part of the permanent exhibition in the museum, there is also an ongoing video with testimonies from five Jewish people that survived the Holocaust... I need to mention that anyone wanting to visit, need to bring ID or...
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Highly recommended. One of my fondest memories of my time in South Africa. The museums and the synagogue are wonderful, so beautiful and interesting. I was really touched by the atmosphere that emanated from the places, the testimonies, the photographs. But I have an even more precious memory of Batya, whom I met today at the Holocaust Museum (07/07). She spontaneously goes to talk to visitors to provide them with more explanations, she is very welcoming and friendly. It is obvious, she loves her job. At the end of the day, I had no internet, I couldn't order an Uber with wifi, and it was raining cats and dogs. She offered to drive me home. I must have written her phone number wrong because I never heard from her again. I...
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